St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1887-06-25
NEW YORK HOSPITALS.


NEW YORK HOSPITALS.
what 10 Done with Stranger who Fall
Sick On Gotham's streets.
One Of the first thoughts that assail a
stranger in a large city is ''What would
become Of me if should fall sick or
dead in the strect:' He would proba-
bly, 60 unidentified awhile. owing to the
fact that he. like seventy-five per cent.
OF the transient persons, has not taken
the Prccaution to write his name and
residence somewhere about his person.
In no city in America can one fall
sick and scnseless with rs great sense
Of security in being cared for rs in New
York. The city is divided into districts
convenient to the several hospitals,
and more than . score If ambulances,
each running in its prescribed district.
are on the go all the while. The patient
falling sick or injured on the street will
regain consciousness to find himself in
Bellevue. Harlem. Ninety ninth Street,
Presbyterian or Gouvcrneur Hospital.
his destination depending on the dis
trict where he chances to be stricken
down. II it is found that he has money
and is able to pay seven to fifty dollars
. week for hospital care he may he
taken to New York, St. Lukc's. Roose-
welt, Mi. Sinai. German. st. Vim.
cents or St. Francis Hospital. Il
he has no money the city charges
itself with his care. Bellevue is the
great receiving hospital. 1t is on the
east side Of Manhattan Island. at the
foot of Twenty-sixth street. 1t is in an
irregular group Of buildings arranged
around q grass plated court and built
of rough stone. with piazzas at each
story that give it the appearance Of =
Southern villa A corps of twelve ply
sicians and forty trained nurses are on
hand. There are no homeopathic doc
tors in Bellevue. but the patient so in
clined may be transferred to the
Homeopathic Hospital. The trained
female nurses are from the Bellevue
Training-school.
When the patient has reached Belle
vue it may be found that his case is a
chronic one. and he will. as soon as he
is able to be transported, be sent to the
Hospital for Incurables. His case may
be found to be one Of smallpox or some
contagious disease. in which event he
will be sent to the hospital on North
Brother Island. one ofthe several islands
in the East river on which are public
institutions If his case develop into
one Of erysipelas he will be removed to
the little wooden pavilion on the east
bank Of East river that forms
one Of the group Of structures
called Bellevue Hospital. Insan-
ity may he the outcome Of the disease.
and then the patient is transferred for
time to the insane pavilion Of Belle
vue. where q nurse skilled in insanity
will quickly find out whether or not the
patient has demcntia. melancholia. re-
ligious excitement or the suicidal tend
ency. The crazy patient who requires
long treatment is conveyed. if male.
to Wards Island. and, il female, tc
Blackwcll's Island.
In one ward Of Bellevue, separated
from the rest Of the room by great irOE
CRATES, are a number Of p atients pa
cling the floor like Gagged lions. They
are the attempted suicides, and two OF
more policemen are constantly on hand
to guard them.
The hospital il on East river and the
most eastcrly Of the community Of
buildings is q one-story structure built
on piles out over the river. This is the
morgue. II is sided with red tile from
Ohio, fioored with cement and provided
with block and tackle TO pull up
..floaters'' from the river through a hole
in the floor. On iron stands ut either
side Of the building are coarse board
collins. many of them 80 poorly made
that they are coming apart The rela-
tivcs Of the dead are not allowed to ac-
company the remains, and no prayer is
said over the body. II it be an sun
known" the clothing and trinkets are
stored in the morgue Office for six
when they are destroyed.-N
T. Cor. Philadelphia Press.